Thursday, September 12, 2019

Scrapper Blackwell - Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out





Francis Hillman "Scrapper" Blackwell was an American blues guitarist and singer, best known as half of the guitar-piano duo he formed with Leroy Carr in the late 1920s and early 1930s. He was an acoustic single-note picker in the Chicago blues and Piedmont blues styles.

Born: February 21, 1903, Darlington County, SC
Died: October 7, 1962, Indianapolis, IN

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